The Official Chelsea Thread [Vol 2]

[968]

Frankly we deserve to lose, we haven't taken our chances or tried to impose ourselves on the game. Even if we get through (which is unlikely) we will get hammered in the next round. The team needs to wake up.

[Wadeski]

Where's the fight in this team?? Very strange attitude the last few games.

[g4ry13]

I know PSG is a pretty decent team, but they've got 10 men! Chelsea were supposed to walk this in 90 minutes.

[968]

Wadeski said:

Where's the fight in this team?? Very strange attitude the last few games.

Completely absent since December. They've gone off the boil massively and worryingly for a while.

[MGJohn]

Top PL Clubs recently against Foreign Clubs has been eye opening confirmation of what I've suspected for a few seasons now. Our Premiership teams, whilst often entertaining, are nowhere near the level or standard of many Clubs elsewhere.

Very sad to observe.... another indicator of an also ran Nation losing its way at far too many levels ...

[Amirhussain]

Wadeski said:

Where's the fight in this team?? Very strange attitude the last few games.

Exactly. Don't know what's happened tonight. Massively not turned up. If we lose, we lose, but not like this. Mourinho is gonna go ballistic.

[968]

embarrassing, truly embarrassing performance. Just wandering around the pitch and hope Hazard can do something. What does Fabregas do on the pitch currently? And Costa? Hopeless. Deserve to be knocked out over 2 legs for sure.

They have to hope they can hold it together in the league, but I doubt it.

[TTmonkey]

Hard to believe there was a man advantage for an hour and a half. I mean... Wtf??????

[MGJohn]

TTmonkey said:

Hard to believe there was a man advantage for an hour and a half. I mean... Wtf??????

Not simply that, their best man in the team removed.

[crikey]

968 said:

embarrassing, truly embarrassing performance. Just wandering around the pitch and hope Hazard can do something. What does Fabregas do on the pitch currently? And Costa? Hopeless. Deserve to be knocked out over 2 legs for sure.

They have to hope they can hold it together in the league, but I doubt it.

Hazard was the only one putting any effort in tonight.

[61GT]

As a neutral, I thought when de Matteo led them to Champions League victory 3 years ago a repeat performance would be far from easy. There seemed to be almost a begrudging appreciation of what he had been achieved, particularly by Abramovich.

Based upon what I've heard and read this evening another CL Final seems as far away as ever.

Edited by 61GT on Wednesday 11th March 22:32

[Negative Creep]

I withdraw my earlier complaint about this game not being televised.

[Amirhussain]

61GT said:

As a neutral, I thought when de Matteo led them to Champions League victory 3 years ago a repeat performance would be far from easy. There seemed to be almost a begrudging appreciation of what he had been achieved, particularly by Abramovich.

Based upon what I've heard and read this evening another CL Final seems as far away as ever.

Edited by 61GT on Wednesday 11th March 22:32

We reached the semi finals last year. Tonight we were just really awful. Congrats to PSG though. They played good and never gave up.

We'll be back next year stronger and better.

[61GT]

Amirhussain said:

61GT said:

As a neutral, I thought when de Matteo led them to Champions League victory 3 years ago a repeat performance would be far from easy. There seemed to be almost a begrudging appreciation of what he had been achieved, particularly by Abramovich.

Based upon what I've heard and read this evening another CL Final seems as far away as ever.

Edited by 61GT on Wednesday 11th March 22:32

We reached the semi finals last year. Tonight we were just really awful. Congrats to PSG though. They played good and never gave up.

We'll be back next year stronger and better.

Fair point about last years semi-final.

[hornetrider]

[Cheib]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

North West Tom said:

I'm not surprised the ref gave a red for that. Both players go in with some momentum, Oscar gets to the ball first. Ref can't exactly see whose studs hit whose shins, but Oscar rolling around like a baby, Ibra's "I didn't touch him" hands up, and 9 out of the 11 Chelsea players sprinting up to the ref probably swayed his decision.

Maybe a follow on from the lack of reaction to the Ashley Barnes tackle that may have contributed to him getting away with it. I bet they got a rocket for that from Jose.

Reap what you sow. Disgraceful from Chelsea. Souness just having a brilliant rant about how the Chelsea team behaved in that incident on Sky....and he's right. Costa ran 50 yards up the pitch to join in.....

Mourinho started it yesterday in his press conference and the players followed it to get Ibrahamovic sent off. Shame they didn't try as hard to play football......

Edited by Cheib on Wednesday 11th March 22:58

[epom]

Balls..... I turned this off when Chelsea scored the penalty. Must have missed a cracking finale.

[m3sye]

Nice of Terry to stamp on Oscar as he was on the ground

Keep watching it if you miss it -

http://www.90min.com/posts/1949556-terry-literally...

[Negative Creep]

Cheib said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

North West Tom said:

I'm not surprised the ref gave a red for that. Both players go in with some momentum, Oscar gets to the ball first. Ref can't exactly see whose studs hit whose shins, but Oscar rolling around like a baby, Ibra's "I didn't touch him" hands up, and 9 out of the 11 Chelsea players sprinting up to the ref probably swayed his decision.

Maybe a follow on from the lack of reaction to the Ashley Barnes tackle that may have contributed to him getting away with it. I bet they got a rocket for that from Jose.

Reap what you sow. Disgraceful from Chelsea. Souness just having a brilliant rant about how the Chelsea team behaved in that incident on Sky....and he's right. Costa ran 50 yards up the pitch to join in.....

Mourinho started it yesterday in his press conference and the players followed it to get Ibrahamovic sent off. Shame they didn't try as hard to play football......

Edited by Cheib on Wednesday 11th March 22:58

Yes, if only we played football in the "proper" way, just like Souness did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVgxYa3mlo

[hornetrider]

Football was different back then. Souness has got 3 European Cups on his cv you know.